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Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
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| Format: | Video DVD Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | Wolof Spanish Turkish Arabic Bengali Korean English |
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| Edition: | Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition |
| Series: | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;
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| Summary: | Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container. Redes: "This vivid, documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of men struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico (mostly played by real-life fishermen), one worker's terrible loss instigates a political awakening among him and his fellow laborers"--Container. River called Titas: "A saga ... [of] the tumultuous lives of people in fishing villages along the banks of the Titas River in pre-Partition East Bengal"--Container. Dry summer: "Follows the machinations of an unrepentantly selfish tobacco farmer who builds a dam to prevent water from flowing downhill to his neighbors' crops. ... Alongside this tale ... is one of overheated desire, as a love triangle develops between the farmer, his more decent brother, and the beautiful villager the latter takes as his bride"--Container. Trances: "The ... Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane is the ... subject of this ... musical documentary"--Container. Housemaid: "The story of the devastating effect an unstable housemaid has on the domestic cocoon of a bourgeois, morally dubious music teacher, his devoted wife, and their precocious young children"--Container. |
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| Item Description: | River called Titas based on the novel by Advaita Malla Barman. Touki-bouki: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1973. Redes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1936. River called Titas: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1973. Dry summer: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964. Trances: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1981. Housemaid: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960. Special features: Martin Scorsese (introductions to the films). Disc 1 (Touki Bouki): Abderrahmane Sissako on Touki Bouki (interview with a filmmaker). Disc 2 (Redes): Visual essay on Redes (written by filmmaker and critic Kent Jones). Disc 4 (A river called Titas): Kumar Shahani on A river called Titas (interview with a filmmaker). Disc 5 (Dry summer): Metin Erksan and Fatih Akin on Dry summer (interviews with the director and a filmmaker). Disc 7 (Trances): On Trances (musician Omar Sayed, producer Izza Génini, director Ahmed El Maânouni, and Martin Scorsese discuss their personal connections to Trances and the music of Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane). Disc 8 (The housemaid): Bong Joon-Ho on The housemaid (interview with a filmmaker). Blu-ray discs 3, 6, and 9 contain same special features as their corresponding DVDs. Booklet features a foreword by Kent Jones and essys on the films by Richard Porton, Charles Ramírez Berg, Adrian Martin, Bilge Ebiri, Sally Shafto, and Kyung Hyun Kim. |
| Physical Description: | 9 videodiscs (590 min.) : DVD video, Blu-ray, sound, color, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (63 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm) |
| Format: | Blu-ray, region A; full screen (1.37:1 or 1.33:1) presentations; uncompressed monaural; requires Blu-ray player. DVD, NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.37:1 or 1.33:1) presentations; monaural. |
| Production Credits: | Touki bouki: costume and set design, Aziz Diop Mambety ; editor, Siro Asteni ; director of photography, George Bracher ; singers, Joséphine Baker, Mado Robin, Aminata Fall. Redes: original music by Silvestre Revueltas ; cinematographer, Paul Strand ; editors, Gunther von Fritsch, Emilio Gómez Muriel. River called Titas: director of photography, Baby Islam ; editors, Basheer Hussain, Abu Taleb, Mahabubur Rahaman ; original music, Ustad Bahadur Khan, Hossein Khan ; art direction, Munshi Mahiuddin ; singers, Dheeraj Uddin Fakir, Rathindranath Ray, Nina Hamid. Dry summer: music director, Ahmet Yamaç ; director of photography, Ali Uğur ; film editor, Turgut Inangiray. Trances: editor, Jean-Claude Bonfanti ; cinematography, Ahmed El Maânouni ; music, Nass El Ghiwane. Housemaid: cinematography, Kim Deok-jin ; art director, Park Seok-in ; music by Han Sang-gi ; editor, Oh Young-geun. |
| ISBN: | 9781604658026 (set) 1604658029 (set) 9781604658132 (Touki Bouki) 1604658134 (Touki Bouki) 9781604658149 (Redes) 1604658142 (Redes) 9781604658156 (River called Titas) 1604658150 (River called Titas) 9781604658163 (Dry summer) 1604658169 (Dry summer) 9781604658170 (Trances) 1604658177 (Trances) 9781604658187 (Housemaid) 1604658185 (Housemaid) |